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Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT SEEMS AS IF THE exhibit halls at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) conferences get bigger every year, and it takes longer for me to get from one end of the hall to the other. Certainly the glitz of new systems, fancy interfaces, and new technologies is more impressive every year, and new Internet companies keep showing up.

Finding Full Text For Articles, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

OF ALL THE TOPICS I've written about recently, the one that gets the most requests for updates is information about full texts of journal and magazine articles. I am still getting e-mail about last year's column "Should We Cancel Print?" (LJ 9/1/99, p. 138, 142), which discusses the completeness and characteristics of various versions of online journals.

Linking To Full Texts, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT HAS BECOME routine for librarians to help a patron compile a comprehensive customized bibliography from online or CD-ROM indexes. In fact, patrons no longer consider it sufficient to compile a list of resources. Although searching indexes and abstracts was never the end of the information seeking process, in the print world an index search was so tedious that users focused energy on the search process. Interlibrary loan could suffice for articles the library didn't hold. Now, as library users become familiar with the convenience of online searching and their expectations rise, they expect instantaneous access to full articles.

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Ascii Full Texts, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses various aspects of ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) full text systems. What full text includes; Limitations of image files; What searchable ASCII text offers; Nonsearchable ASCII; H.W. Wilson Company's WilsonText; Wilson Author Biographies.

Users And Uses Of Full Text Databases, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The increasing variety in full text databases and wider availability means a variety of users and uses. Recent research has suggested that full texts are being used for many different reasons, including: document location, fact retrieval, paragraph retrieval,browsing, and document delivery. The studies reported in this paper show that search strategies may need to differ for different uses or for different types of full text. The reported studies focus on full texts of non-technical magazine articles.